Posted on 08/09/2023 8:18:29 PM PDT by algore
There was a lot of really greatness in music before the 90s and I just give this as an example, but could easily give you a hundred more.
but I just don't see it today, and I don't know why.
Am I just missing all of today's talent somehow or has something changed?
Then there's Epica, fronted by the prodigiously talented and terrifyingly beautiful Simone Simons. There are others, but these two in particular make astonishing music.
Their live performances exceed anything they do in the studio.
“. . . of Karen Carpenter)”
Oh how I miss her (friend)!
Knopfler is in a class by himself, as is David Gilmour.
That depends on one's taste in music. When I tell people I can't find good new music I like (and I've tried) they send me examples of new music they like--and it's always a genre like metal or punk that I don't care for. Where are the Chicago's, the Earth Wind & Fires, and the Tower of Power of today?
I actually listened to some Average White Band a few days ago.
I guess Paul McCartney must have liked it, because Hamish Stewart played in his band for years.
You might be thinking of their original lead singer. He was Ukrainian and left shortly after the war started. Their personnel shifts fairly frequently, with a core of about 5 or 6.
Maybe that’s it. It was more toward the beginnning of the war.
Oh—I have an extensive collection of Big Band music...It would have been nice to have recordings of all the regional bands networks would broadcast via telephone lines back in the day—one is named “Pancho” who was playing in SF the night of D-Day...there is only a couple of minutes of his set on record and just a couple of scratchy 78’s of his music survive.
Lots of music was lost when records were re-used during the war due to an acetate shortage—melt the exisiting to make more music...
Well, yâall take it easyâŠ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AaBw37-nWaY
Almost all the great rock groups in the 60âs and 70âs had studio musicians record the tracks that made their records so great.
There is a documentary on you tube. âThe wrecking Crewâ.
Great movie.
Oh and we had a Blue Moon a couple of nights agoâŠ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8eMkH0s3Vpc
Studio time cost a lot of money. You needed musicians that could get the job done quickly.
The SwampersâŠ
And The Funk Brothers.
Journey, Eagles, Creedance Clearwater, Led Zeplen, NO TALENT like this any longer!!! Hell go back to the Righteous Brothers Unchained Melody NO ONE today has that talent NO ONE!!!
Yep. They discuss that in the movie. Studio Musicians could record in 3 hours what it would take the âartistsâ 3 months to record.
Interestingly It took Studio Musicians 70 hours to do âGood Vibrationsâ to Brian Wilsonâs standards. The Beach Boys themselves could never have done it.
BTW, Glen Campbell, who played on the road with The Beach Boys, was a member of the studio musicians âWrecking Crewâ before he became a Country Star.
I love watching Rick Beato’s channel.
I think Prince may have been the last great artist.
Check out his shows on YT from Montreux around 2013. Just amazing, any genre of music, he just killed it.
Yep. I have several best ofs they collaborated onâŠ
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